WHILE we shall never, we hope, lack a proper spirit of thankfulness towards any writer who, having to compose a personal history, forbears to make us familiar with the past by such impertinences with ...

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'Galileo and the Science Deniers' is a historical biography on the life of Galileo by astrophysicist Mario Livio which gives a glimpse into the life of a "man who was intellectually radical and well ...

Perhaps Galileo ought to have recognized that his teaching of Copernican theory -- that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe -- would not be tolerated by the leaders of the Roman ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Bertolt Brecht's LIFE OF GALILEO is given a modern makeover in Tom Wright's ...

Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey hits a midseason peak with a stunning presentation of rarely produced Bertolt Brecht drama "Life of Galileo." In John Willett's freshly accessible translation, the ...

With debates and wars raging about religious power and state control, intelligent design vs. science-based thinking, how come no one has written a play about it all? Oh, Bertolt Brecht did. The play, ...